What heaven tastes like

My love my new hobby, cooking, I've even considered cooking fish which I don't even like but just the thought of being able to cook another kind of food made me feel so proud. The good thing about cooking is that there's always something new to learn, even all the professional chefs don't know everything there are new tastes and dishes ready to be discovered.

I made Nigella Lawson's Devil's food cake as promised, which by the way is what heaven tastes like, my boyfriend made it with me, as he does with most of the cakey things, last week we made a cherry and almond pie and got in an argument about how thick the mixture should have been ("it says it's supposed to look like that!" "well I don't think it looks right!" "well I'm going to follow the RECIPE and keep it like this!" "you do that!") but it turned out fine (because I followed the recipe) I tried to impress him by making roast duck with potatoes which usually turns out brilliantly but of course on this occasion it went wrong an I set fire to the duck but I sacrificed myself and ate the burnt one so at least everyone else enjoyed theirs.

I have set up a list of things I want to make in the next few weeks :
- A damn good cake to give to the secretarys i'm working with on my woruk experience (as a bribe for a good report)
- Pancakes with blueberry syrup, for pancake day of course
- Blondies (brownies but blonde)
- My sisters birthday cake (I will take a photo of that and put it on here but her birthday is at the end of febuary so don't get excited)
- Something that isn't a dessert, any ideas?

I would also like to take the oppurtunity to thank my mum for taking pity on me and leaving comments, but I hope some day to get one from someone else.

2011 is here!

I have had a lovely Christmas, I've seen a lot of my boyfriend, usually I can only see him twice a week, he took me skiing which was fun he's been snowboarding for 8 years but last year he couldn't do any so he was a bit rusty, I took great joy in skiing round him in circles when he fell over and laughing at him until I fell over and snow got into my pants then he was the one laughing.

I went out with friends on New Year and my friend was so excited about it and we went to her friends party which was at his house and we were expecting the kind of party you see in American movies with a lot of people but no, we got there and there were 3 people sat in a garage with a few drinks and the radio, everything got better though when our hosts mother came out of the house in a mini skirt and stilettos shouting 'LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE WARDROBE! I still look damn good for 50' before falling over. Then she grabbed my arm and told me that I was so pretty that she wanted me as a daughter then my friend accompanied her back to the front door and was told that she had to marry her son so that she could be her daughter too. Eventually we went to the club which WASN'T OPEN until 12.00 on new year, surely they should have been open half an hour early or something so that people could celebrate new year in the warm instead of shivering in the car park waiting to be let in. Anyway when we finally got in we had a very good time.



I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!